Taliban militants have beheaded two boys in southern Afghanistan as insecurity continues across the war-torn country.
A US assassination drone airstrike has killed at least seven people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan.
The Pakistani Taliban have confirmed their second in command had been killed in a US drone strike in the country's tribal northwest and withdrew their offer of peace talks with the government.
At least six US-led soldiers along with nine people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Pakistan's main state prosecutor in the 2007 murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been shot dead en route to a court hearing on the Bhutto case.
Qatari government has laid down a condition for Taliban to let them open an office in Doha.
Taliban militants stormed an Afghan court on, killing at least 44 people in a bid to free insurgents standing trial.
A bomb exploded among spectators at a bird fight in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a teenager and wounding up to eight other people, police said.